DBASupport.com Newsletter for April 3, 2006

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Table of Contents 1. Oracle Further Extends Oracle(r) Enterprise Manager with Systems Management Support for IBM DB2 Universal Database 2. Oracle to Expand Global SMB Investment with IBM for JD Edwards 3. Oracle enhances Collaboration Suite 10g 4. Sun to Jazz Up Oracle's Database 10g 5. Head-to-Head Comparison 6. Customers and Partners Embrace Oracle�s Open, Standards-Based Approach to Service-Oriented Architecture 7. Will Oracle Ditch Licenses? 8. Restoring Your Confidence in Oracle Backups 9. Oracle 10g Scheduler Enhancements, Part 2: Job Chains 10. Oracle looks to get more out of your data 11. DreamCoder for Oracle 2.0 is now available 12. Trees and Hierarchies in Oracle 13. Oracle Makes Intelligence Its Business 14. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS): More Than a Mapping Tool 15. Oracle's Sales Disappoint 16. Oracle Wins Summary Judgment in Patent Infringement Suit 17. Oracle starts to offer hosted Siebel CRM service 18. Monitoring Oracle 10g RAC with Quest Spotlight on RAC � Part III 19. Oracle Shakes Up Enterprise Search 20. Oracle Database Administration Thread of the Month 21. Oracle Database Development Thread of the Month 22. User submissions of Scripts, FAQ and Content

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1. Oracle Further Extends Oracle(r) Enterprise Manager with Systems Management Support for IBM DB2 Universal Database Oracle today announced a new Plug-In for systems management support of IBM DB2 Universal Database (IBM DB2)... http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,efmo,l0o4,2ezm,3q9m

2. Oracle to Expand Global SMB Investment with IBM for JD Edwards Oracle today announced plans to strengthen its partnership with IBM to position their industry-leading SMB reseller channel to promote Oracle's JD Edwards applications. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,20zo,djwn,2ezm,3q9m

3. Oracle enhances Collaboration Suite 10g Introduces new collaborative workspace functionality in its content management solution. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,kfub,3v3m,2ezm,3q9m

4. Sun to Jazz Up Oracle's Database 10g Sun software will help cluster Oracle's current database server, internetnews.com has learned. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,gr7k,gk7q,2ezm,3q9m

5. Head-to-Head Comparison Third Party Study Proves Oracle Database Can Deliver Substantial Savings Over Microsoft SQL Server 2005. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,mf3d,2ben,2ezm,3q9m

6. Customers and Partners Embrace Oracle�s Open, Standards-Based Approach to Service-Oriented Architecture Oracle�s Hot-Pluggable SOA Suite Technologies Gain Customer and Partner Momentum. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,d5t7,chsg,2ezm,3q9m

7. Will Oracle Ditch Licenses? Oracle may have a cure for the guessing game that ensues every time the company reports its quarterly license revenue: Switch the business model. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,62ly,fkxa,2ezm,3q9m

8. Restoring Your Confidence in Oracle Backups Wouldn't it be great to be able to rely on your backups and have full confidence that they will work properly during a disaster or a routine restore operation? http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,70qy,aych,2ezm,3q9m

9. Oracle 10g Scheduler Enhancements, Part 2: Job Chains The final article in this series illustrates how an Oracle DBA can use the new Job Chain capabilities of the Scheduler in Oracle 10g Release 2 (10gR2) to schedule and trigger multiple interrelated and dependent tasks based upon specific yet complex sets of processing rules. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,lnk1,c5h3,2ezm,3q9m

10. Oracle looks to get more out of your data Oracle has unveiled a suite of business intelligence (BI) tools that will help users get more out of the data its products hold... http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,j6bp,arqv,2ezm,3q9m

11. DreamCoder for Oracle 2.0 is now available Mentat Technologies is pleased to announce the new version of DreamCoder for Oracle. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,fyyr,im93,2ezm,3q9m

12. Trees and Hierarchies in Oracle An excellent book by Joe Celko (Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties) shows several means of arranging hierarchical data. This article combines the familiar emp table and some of the examples shown in Celko's book. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,f6iz,gku3,2ezm,3q9m

13. Oracle Makes Intelligence Its Business The company moves aggressively into the business intelligence space with three product suites. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,jaya,aewy,2ezm,3q9m

14. Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS): More Than a Mapping Tool Connecting to an external database allows you to build sophisticated geospatial apps with the open-source GRASS GIS tool. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,5fdq,yyt,2ezm,3q9m

15. Oracle's Sales Disappoint Oracle beat earnings estimates after the close on Monday, but the company's sales came in a little lighter than expected. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,3joc,88k6,2ezm,3q9m

16. Oracle Wins Summary Judgment in Patent Infringement Suit Oracle Corporation has won summary judgment in a significant patent infringement suit concerning its clustered database software. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,c92g,a2iy,2ezm,3q9m

17. Oracle starts to offer hosted Siebel CRM service IBM Corp's days as the host for the Siebel CRM on-demand service could be numbered, as Oracle Corp revealed that the hosted version of the Siebel 7 platform is being run from Oracle's own data center. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,a59k,dfx1,2ezm,3q9m

18. Monitoring Oracle 10g RAC with Quest Spotlight on RAC � Part III The concluding installment of this series discusses the cluster latency and overhead alarms, the Global cache alarms and the ASM alarms. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,cqc8,4z7d,2ezm,3q9m

19. Oracle Shakes Up Enterprise Search The 800-pound gorilla has entered the search room. But will users find its offering sturdy enough? http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,9m56,hs20,2ezm,3q9m

20. Oracle Database Administration Thread of the Month: SQLLDR Problem when direct = true In this month's selected Oracle Development forum thread, members discuss why the details aren't stored when using the Direct = true option. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,3zhg,k1w5,2ezm,3q9m

21. Oracle Database Development Thread of the Month: Privileges on Package Body In this month's selected Oracle Development forum thread, members discuss how to grant rights to view the package body to another user. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,c1sy,g1f3,2ezm,3q9m

22. User submissions of Scripts, FAQ and Content can be sent to webmaster@dbasupport.com. If your submission is accepted, your name will be featured with the script or the content.

Find your own TRACE File even when session identifier is set This script can be used to set the session identifier and correctly get trace file name. http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2chl,1,3p3h,8xmr,2ezm,3q9m

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